Matthew C. Clark Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 NHL Hockey great Bobby Hull (Chicago Black Hawks) has died at 84 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Hull 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Met him once…Very nice guy… 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkpat Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Very sad. One of hockey’s all time greats. Met him several times and still have an autographed pennant from him he handed me when I was a child. RIP Bobby #9 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 They don't make 'em like that anymore. He's probably already on the ice in Heaven. Rest well, Bobby. 🏒 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Not a Bobby fan. he was racist and he was a multiple wife beater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Digging deep, Vinnie…Tell us more… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/31/2023 at 1:17 PM, Lew Bundles said: Digging deep, Vinnie…Tell us more… I leave it at that. great hockey played. Old school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkpat Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Wow, you must’ve been in the room to make such an incriminating statement about a man on the day he passed away . Fact: He had a domestic incident with his wife in 1986 when neighbors heard them “shouting” and called the police. When the police arrived and found out he was a famous athlete, they kicked the door in. Two officers tried to grab Hull and he decked one of them, thus an assault charge was filed against him, not by his wife, but by the police officer. Hull pleaded guilty to assaulting the policeman even though it was self-defense and only served the one night in jail when they brought him in. His wife chose not to file anything against him. These are all court records. Fact: Just like controversial celebrities from Donald Trump to Oliver Stone, Kanye West to Hank Williams Jr, anytime the name Adolf Hitler comes up, you are asking for trouble and usually your quote gets taken out of context. All of those people mentioned above have allegedly said positive things about Hitler and then claim they were misquoted. Bobby Hull gave an interview with the Moscow times in 1998 and allegedly said “Hitler had some good ideas but he went too far.” The interview was not recorded and it was only translated from Russian to English. Bobby claims he never said those things and was going to sue the newspaper for tarnishing his image but never followed up. People jumped on this claiming he was racist and a nazi for saying that, ignoring the fact that it was a Russian reporter translating the quote during a time when there were some heated battles on the ice between the Russians and Canada, who Hull was representing. The Blackhawks recently gave in to the woke mob who found out about the stories years later and demanded he be removed from the team as an ambassador. When the Blackhawks needed him they called on him to represent the team at hundreds of functions over the past 12 years but as soon as the millennial woke fans who don’t even attend the games demanded him “canceled”, the team cowardly removed him from his role. i’ve heard all the speculation, but that’s all it is ….speculation, all I know is I met him several times and he was always fantastic in the way he treated me and or my daughters, so I choose to remember him that way and also as the most dynamic left wing in the history of the National Hockey League. maybe this belongs in cartoon world, but it’s unfair to come on and make a blanket statement of calling him a wife beater and a racist and then back off and say oh forget it let’s just remember him as a hockey player. So people who are unaware of who he is see things like that and believe it. His grandson just came out yesterday angry at how many people are just throwing these accusations out there without basis, just trying to tarnish the reputation of one of the greatest athletes of our time. Hull spent countless hours signing autographs for children and doing charity events promoting the game of hockey. In fact, the last time I met him he was at a benefit for a 12 year old child (I am friends with the parents) Who was killed by a drunk driver and the hockey community put on a benefit to raise money for the funeral. Hull donated his fee to the cause. That’s the guy I will remember, but it’s not hip to tell stories like that in the cancel culture we live in now. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/31/2023 at 12:26 PM, Vinnie B Trask said: Not a Bobby fan. he was racist and he was a multiple wife beater. Vinnie, Pat's totally right. Think twice before you post gossip like this. It's not your first time kicking dirt on one's grave. Just do a little research before you post. Check with authoritative sources — don't go by hearsay. If you find well-sourced evidence that Bobby Hull was "racist and a multiple wife-beater," then... okay. But off-the-cuff "tributes" like this aren't really fair, are they? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Fair enough!! by the way both Fox news and CNN were the news networks that reported the story. But that does not make it fact does it! What about quotes from his own daughter. They do not count either. " Hull denied making the comments and said he was going to sue both The Moscow Times and The Toronto Sun, which reprinted portions of the Times article, but nothing came of the threatened legal action. However, Hull’s daughter Michelle contradicted him on the newspaper stories. She told ESPN that when she saw the remarks attributed to her father about Black people and Hitler, “The first thing I thought was, ‘That’s exactly like him.’” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Bobby Hull was my only hockey hero as a kid. Mikita, Esposito and Bobby Hull...classic Blackhawk teams. RIP Bobby. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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